Dr. Elsy Ibrahim was a researcher at the hydraulics laboratory at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KULeuven), Belgium from October 2009 till October 2011. Her main research topics were in the domain of remote sensing technology for coastal applications. Specifically, Dr. Ibrahim worked on examining and developing methodologies for the use of remote sensing technology to classify bio-physical characteristics of sediments on intertidal zones. Her research included the study of sediment morphology and erodibility, image processing and data mining, geostatistics, and organization and implementation of field campaigns on specific study sites. The research was carried out in the scope of European projects funded by either the Belgian Science Policy or the European FP7 Framework.
She was highly involved in teaching “Advanced Mathematics for Water Resources Engineering” during 2006-2010 period, in the scope of the Inter-University Programme in Water Resources Engineering (IUPWARE), which is an international Master programme between KULeuven and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium. Furthermore, she has supervised theses of Master’s degree in her field of expertise.
In October 2011, she joined the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at NDU-Louaize, North Campus Lebanon, as an Assistant Professor. Her research interests are in the scope of innovative technology and environmental protection and remediation.

Doctorate in Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 2010

M.S. in Water Resources Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 2005

B.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Balamand, Lebanon, 2003

Refereed Journal Articles

Ibrahim, E. and Monbaliu, J. (2011) The Suitability of Spaceborne Multispectral Data for Sediment Characterization: a case study. Coastal, Estuarine & Shelf Science 92, 437:445

Ibrahim, E., Adam, S., Van Der Wal, D., De Wever, A., Sabbe, K., Forster, R., and
Monbaliu, J. (2009) Assessment of Unsupervised Classification Techniques for Intertidal Sediments. EARSeL eProceedings, 8(2), 158:179

Giardino, A., Ibrahim, E., Adam, S., Toorman, E., and Monbaliu, J. (2009) Hydrodynamics and Cohesive Sediment Transport in the IJzer Estuary, Belgium: Case Study. Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, 135, 176:184

Conference Proceedings

Ibrahim, E., Govaerts, A., Regmi, P., Druyts, J., ven der Wal, D., Adam, S., Vervoort, A., De Wever, A., Sabbe, K., Forster, R., and Monbaliu, J. (2009) Effect of Spatial Resolutions on Intertidal Sediment Characterization. 29th EARSeL Symposium, Imaging Europe, Crete, Greece, 182:189

Ibrahim, E., Adam, S., Monbaliu, J. (2008)Assessment of Unsupervised classification Techniques for Intertidal Sediments. 28th EARSeL Symposium and Workshops, Remote Sensing for a Changing Europe, Istanbul, 348:355.

Adam, S., Ibrahim, E., Monbaliu, J., Toorman, E. (2006) Unsupervised Classification Techniques for Surface Sediment Type Discrimination Using Hyperspectral Airborne Imagery. NCK Workshop on Water-bed Exchange of Cohesive Sand-mud Mixtures, Delft, Netherlands, pp. 17.